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Hahaha come the fuck on @theguardian.com

You can tell when someone has absolutely no scientific education or background. I know we talk about losing the humanities and the deleterious effects of that but I must be very firm here: they also know fuck all about science and research.

Find me the anti-trans evangelical Christian willing to put aside their hatred and join me in fighting for foreign aid; find me the Reform voter that will turf immigrants but wants… the state to control social media? What?

If the liberal elite had spent as much time fighting fascism as it has trying to placate it, we probably wouldn't be where we are now And if you think I am being unfair or mean to 'liberals', look at where we are at and who had the most discursive power to act against the reactionary resurgence

I agree, but attempts to reimpose this will founder the moment they bump up against things like e.g. opinion and editorial writers at the Times have been reheating some of the spicier sections of Mein Kampf for well over ten years, and those people will all unite in fury against “Cancel Culture”.

Aly Beynon is now the second genius DOGE engineer I’ve seen struggle with the hardest problem in computer science: extracting text from a PDF. To keep your agency safe from DOGE, I recommend scanning all your documents as raster PDFs—slightly tilted and with a coffee mug stain for good measure.